I am trying to find a way to embed a share/+1 link for Google+ in a Newsletter, much like the Facebook share and tweeter tweet links can be embedded in a newsletter, which c
I personally suggest Google Plus Interactive Posts button https://developers.google.com/+/web/share/interactive to use in your apps/websites.Here Google Plus allows many customizations to do according to the requirement. I have used it in my app. Its a better option than Share button.
Solution for those who needs custom title, description and image. You should make following changes to target URL:
Step1. add itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness" into <html>
tag. It will look like <html itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness">
. More itemtypes here
Step2. Place the follwing meta tags into <head>
, change content attributes according your needs:
<meta itemprop="name" content="{Custom title goes here}">
<meta itemprop="description" content="{Custom description goes here}">
<meta itemprop="image" content="{http://www.your_url.com/your_image.png}">
Step3. Add the following link to your newsletter or anywhere you want:
<a href="https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/confirm?hl=en&url=http://www.your_url.com">Share it</a>
Tip. To check how google sees your page, you can use this tool http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets. Probably you'll be interested in section Extracted rich snippet data from the page
Good luck, Lauris